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Mustafa Sabbagh

Italo-palestinian, former assistant of Richard Avedon and teacher at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, after a successful career as a fashion photographer recognized by the most prestigious magazines of the world, Mustafa Sabbagh focuses his research towards contemporary art through the mediums of photography and video-art, by a kind of aesthetic counter-canon in which punctum is the skin as diary of individual’s uniqueness.Harmony of imperfection, psychological inquiry and anthropological research through the construction of the image are the stylistic features that Sabbagh moves with ease from the glossy pages, to the white cubes of the world's most famous museums and galleries - including the Musée de l'Élisée in Lausanne, considered as an international temple of contemporary photography.

Often protagonist of interviews and documentaries inquiring into his work, to date, Mustafa Sabbagh has been recognized by a photography historian the likes of Peter Weiermair as one of the 100 most influential photographers in the world, and one of the 40 most important nude portraitists - the only one from Italy, on an international basis.

His works are included in several internationally accredited publications (including Faces - the 70 most beautiful photography portraits of all time), in sold-out monographs (among which About Skin - ed. Damiani) and in many private and public permanent collections, both in Italy and abroad (here including the historical Farnesina Art Collection, the ArteFiera Foundation, and the acquisition of one of his unedited projects by the permanent contemporary art collection of MAXXI, Rome).

He’s now displaying an anthology exhibition “Mustafa Sabbagh. XI comandamento: non dimenticare” at ZAC Zisa Contemporary Art Zone in Palermo, 2000 mq in a former industrial hangar: 75 milestone photos form his past works, 10 videos and 3 site specific video installations, and the project acquired by the MAXXI museum, is presented for the first time.